Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire

Clyde Sanger

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Malcolm MacDonald

Bringing an End to Empire

Clyde Sanger

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1995

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Malcolm MacDonald (1901-1981) played a central role in the decolonization of the British Empire. The son of Britain's first Socialist prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, Malcolm soon emerged from his father's shadow to take a crucial political and diplomatic part in the shaping of the Commonwealth. In this first biography of a highly unusual public figure, Clyde Sanger gives a full account of both MacDonald's working life, from early successes in Ireland to a crashing failure over Palestine, and his complex private life.

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"Malcolm MacDonald sheds light on the individual and the major events in which he played so central a role ... Sanger makes it perfectly clear that one cannot understand British policy in Asia and Africa after World War II if one does not understand how British policy evolved in the 1930s." Richard Stubbs, Political Science, McMaster University.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Chronology Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Prologue
Out of Africa, Amiably, December 1963 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Early Years
The Family in Lossiemouth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Margaret’s Short, Crowded Life, 1870–1912 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Schooldays at Bedales, 1912–20 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
Oxford Years, 1920–24 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
Three Travelling Tongues, 1924–25 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
Authors and Antilopes, 1925–29 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Parliamentary Years
Bassetlaw and Five Elections, 1923–35 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Learning under Ramsay, 1929–35 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
Palestine: Under Weizmann’s Charm, 1922–36 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Ross and Cromarty – and the Churchills, 1936 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
Bringing Peace to Ireland, 1935–38 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
The Abdication and Dominion Crises, 1936–38 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Bereavement and Appeasement, 1937–38 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
Moyne, Hailey, and a New View on Colonies, 1935–40 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Palestine: The Split over Partition, 1938–40 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
In Search of Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
London under Attack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
The Submarine War and Ireland, 1940–41 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Canada
Ottawa, 1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Mackenzie King and the Conscription Crises, 1942–44 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
Balancing the Triangle, 1941–43 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Twists over “Tube Alloys,” 1942–46 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	242
Birds and Other Pursuits, 1941–45 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
Love on the Ski Slopes, 1946 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Asia
Malaya: Salvaging a Federation, 1946–48 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Old Attitudes and Closed Clubs, 1947–54 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
The Malayan Emergency, 1948–53 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Building Trust between Communities, 1948–51 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Fast Friends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Borneo People, 1946–56 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Brunei and Singapore, 1946–55 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
The Colombo Plan and Vietnam, 1948–54 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	342
Siam, Sihanouk, Sukarno, and Seminars, 1948–55 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
India: Picking Up the Pieces after Suez, 1955–60 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Leading Laos to Neutrality, 1961–62 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Africa and Later Years
Kenya: Preparing for Uhuru, 1963–64 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
Rhodesia, South Africa, and Nigeria, 1965–74 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	404
Bridges to China, 1962–75 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
Years of “Retirement,” 1969–81 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	428
An Assessment: Man and Diplomat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	438
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	487

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9780773565395

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528

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